U+1D9E "ᶞ" Modifier Letter Small Eth Unicode Character

U+1D9E "ᶞ" Modifier Letter Small Eth is a superscript or raised version of the lowercase eth letter, primarily used in phonetic transcription systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet or its extensions to indicate a modified articulation of the voiced dental fricative sound. This modifier letter resembles a lowercase d with a crossbar, and it appears in specialized linguistic texts to denote a secondary articulation, a specific vocal quality, or a reduced or fleeting pronunciation of the eth sound. While not a common character in everyday writing, it serves a critical role for phoneticians and linguists who need to precisely represent subtle variations in spoken language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D9E
Version Added	4.1
Name	Modifier Letter Small Eth
Block	Phonetic Extensions Supplement
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"ð" U+00F0 Latin Small Letter Eth

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ᶞ
HTML Hex Encoding	ᶞ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xB6 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1D9E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001D9E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1d9e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Other Lowercase	Yes
Case Ignorable	Yes
Cased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ð" U+00F0 Latin Small Letter Eth
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ð" U+00F0 Latin Small Letter Eth
Script	Latin
Script Extensions	Latin
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Diacritic	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower